Restricting student-teacher interactions helps preserve the integrity of the student-teacher relationship and encourages respect both ways. On Facebook, students and teachers both communicate with peers in their respective age groups in ways that might not be appropriate from one group to the other. However, the fact that a teacher has a Facebook account makes many students feel their teacher is open to this type of peer-to-peer communication. Even if there is no inappropriate contact whatsoever, parents who see their children are Facebook friends with their teachers may nevertheless assume teachers are getting too much into their children's personal space.

First of all, let me say thank you to everyone on this blog. One, for making it possible, and two, for letting me be here. Shadow asked me to write an article concerning Kevin Underwood, and the other victims that were concerned. Those that were nameless. Those that werent on the news. Those like me.

I had planned to title this article "Collateral damage" to expand upon a reply that I wrote to Anon and Alicia in the comments section of my Scripting Aphrodites article. Upon further investigation however it became clear that the phrase does not really capture my intended point. Perhaps then, it is time to return to basics--chaos theory or the butterfly effect, to be precise.

On Wednesday, April 13, 2006, 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin was reported missing by her father. Investigators thought she may have been abducted by someone she met online. Oklahoma law enforcement suspected her abductor might be heading just across the border to Texas and requested Texas issue an Amber alert.

Blogging began as an online journal of sorts whose initial goal created a means for jotting down thoughts or memorable moments and sharing them with family and friends. There were always the lone blogger, of course.